SecuROM joins PC Gaming Alliance

Sony DADC, the organisation behind the SecuROM DRM, has joined up with the PC Gaming Alliance.

The PC Gaming Alliance may have just lost the largest publisher and PC developer in the industry, but they have at least found a replacement in good time. The bad news? That replacement is Sony DADC, the organisation responsible for the SecuROM copy-protection system.

Just yesterday Activision Blizzard announced that it had dropped out of the PCGA due to budget concerns, which is a strange excuse coming from the largest publisher and PC developer in the business. Today, the PC Gaming Alliance has responded by taking Sony DADC on as a replacement, according to GamePolitics.

Sony DADC's SecuROM DRM system has drawn almost universal loathing from the PC gaming community, who have vocally opposed the system and the way it limits user installs of games like BioShock and Spore. Despite this, the DRM solution has still proven popular with publishers such as Electronic Arts, Take-Two and Ubisoft.

While potentially a good sign and a possible hint that Sony DADC is looking to communicate more openly with developers and consumers, the move has been met with suspicion by many.

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Isn't this Spyware? :) I remember when EA and other publishers were saying that they might advance with these kind of things and that it would help to bring the games prices down... I really don't see the difference...

Isn't this Spyware? :) I remember when EA and other publishers were saying that they might advance with these kind of things and that it would help to bring the games prices down... I really don't see the difference...

I'd say it depends on what it does exactly. I remember that anti-cheat tool introduced by ESL ages ago that just scanned your hard drives and uploaded that information to the company behind that tool to make sure you don't have any cheat tools installed.
Was fun watching ESL almost being beaten to death. :)

I hope that this move is the real reason why Blizzard cut it's ties with this "collective". DRM is not the way to go. Like others here, I also believe that DRM only pushes more people to pirate the games. It's going to be a biatch when these "authentication" servers are shut down by various companies and a legitimate game buyer can no longer install/play the game because there is no server to authenticate with.